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December 2007
| Authors: | Brad W. Setser, Fellow for Geoeconomics Rachel Ziemba |
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Article
RGE Monitor
With oil at $100, what do we know about how the big oil exporters are managing their petrodollars? In this paper for RGE Monitor, Brad Setser and Rachel Ziemba examine the different GCC funds and estimate that total Gulf investment abroad exceeded $2 trillion in 2007. One surprising conclusion that emerges from their analysis is that the Gulf as a whole has not diversified away from the dollar.
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December 27, 2007
| Author: | Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy |
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Op-Ed
Wall Street Journal
Walter Russell Mead writes that “few subjects matter as much as oil, the Persian Gulf and American foreign policy. But few subjects are less well understood.”
See more in Energy Security, U.S. Strategy and Politics
December 5, 2007
| Author: | Max Boot, Senior Fellow for National Security Studies |
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Op-Ed
Wall Street Journal
Max Boot urges the United States to “tell the Gulf Arabs that if they expect the U.S. to stand with them in the future, they need to stand with us publicly, not just privately.”
See more in Iran, Intelligence, Weapons of Mass Destruction
July 30, 2007
Essential Documents
Statement
See more in Egypt, Israel, Foreign Aid
March 5, 2007
| Author: | Peter Beinart, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy |
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Op-Ed
Time Magazine
See more in Energy Security
January 12, 2007
| Authors: | Christopher M. Blanchard Kenneth Katzman Carol Migdalovitz Alfred B. Prados Jeremy M. Sharp |
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Must Read
Congressional Research Service report that provides information about the current perspectives and policies of Iraq’s neighbors; analyzes potential regional responses to continued insurgency, wider sectarian or ethnic violence, and long-term stabilization; discusses shared concerns and U.S. long-term regional interests; and reviews U.S. policy options for responding to various contingencies.
See more in Turkey, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Terrorism, U.S. Strategy and Politics, Congress
December 9, 2005
| Author: | Lionel Beehner |
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Backgrounder
See more in Iraq, Defense Strategy
April 1, 2001
| Author: | Rachel Bronson, Former Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies |
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Article
ORBIS
See more in Defense Strategy
| Author: | Ray Takeyh, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies |
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Testimony
See more in Iran, U.S. Strategy and Politics
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U.S. Presidential Election (5/9): Michael Gerson looks at the sticking points of the “Obama narrative,” in the Washington Post.
Iraq (5/8): Mohamad Bazzi urges the U.S. and Iraqi governments not to exclude Muqtada al-Sadr from the political process, in The National.
Campaign 2008 (5/5): It would be a travesty if Obama’s campaign gets knocked off course because of his former preacher, writes Sebastian Mallaby in the Washington Post.
Iraq War (5/3): Max Boot argues that the increase in casualties could be a sign that tough combat is under way that will lead to the enemy’s defeat, in the Wall Street Journal.
U.S. Economy (5/2): Amity Shlaes criticizes Hillary Clinton’s plan to implement a windfall oil tax, on Bloomberg.com.
Food Crisis (5/1): Gene Sperling warns that one of the casualties of the food crisis will be the schooling of the world’s poorest children, on Bloomberg.com.
Climate change poses threats to national security in a number of ways. In this report, sponsored by the Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Joshua W. Busby offers specific recommendations for confronting this important issue, including a list of "no-regrets" policies.
This report, by International Affairs Fellow Michelle D. Gavin and sponsored by the Center for Preventive Action, surveys the current situation in Zimbabwe and proposes steps that can increase the likelihood that regime change, when it comes, will bring constructive reform instead of conflict and state collapse.
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In The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Noah Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the sharia—the law of the traditional Islamic state—in the modern Muslim world.
In Regional Monetary Integration, Peter B. Kenen poses an important question: Should various country groups follow the lead of the European Monetary Union and form similar full-fledged monetary unions?
Walter Russell Mead recounts the story of the centuries-long rivalry between the English- speaking peoples and their enemies in God and Gold.
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